I also had a recent article go viral due to some famous associates sharing it on Twitter, so that probably had an impact as well.

As is usually the case, you never know what exactly is working, or if Google is changing things on their side. But to me the graph matches the March Update pretty clearly.

I am sure there were many factors, but it seems clear that the March Core Update was a major one.

Many people are saying that this update reversed a lot of damage done to some sites in 2018, and I think that’s definitely true for me.

I was really worried that I was being punished because I talk about so many different topics on my site, and that I’d never make it back. But I noticed something while my traffic was low that gave me hope: many of the pages that ranked higher than me were really, really bad.

That told me that this wasn’t a policy change, but rather experimentation with something that would likely be fixed in the future for the benefit of users.

And that seems to be exactly what happened. I’m now up over 25,000 spots on Alexa, to sub-100K again.

Anyway, I hope this helps someone who might be going through something similar.